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The Communication and Information Sciences programme (CIW) is an interdisciplinary programme in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen (www.rug.nl/let). CIW is one of the larger programmes in the Faculty of Arts. Every year around 120 students enter the Bachelor programme and around 60 the Master programme. The programme has an outspoken discourse-analytic orientation and covers the following areas: Organizational communication, Media communication and Computer communication. The core staff is assigned to the chair for Communication Studies. Faculty from other departments -- especially Speech Communication and Discourse Analysis and Information sciences / Humanities computing -- also teach in the programme. We collaborate with departments that offer minors in the programme (Foreign languages, Information sciences, Journalism, Linguistics). The research group Discourse & Communication is part of the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG).

The Position: The new lecturers teach within the Communication and Information Sciences programme (60 %) and do research within the Discourse & Communication group (40 %). Supervision of students and course development are also important tasks. Administrative and management tasks may be part of the function.

Profile: Our new colleagues have research and teaching expertise in one (or several) of the following areas: document design, applied conversation analysis, media and computer communication.

Apart from excellent communicative and didactic qualifications, we are looking for candidates who: - have a PhD in a research area that contributes to the discourse-theoretical approach of communication processes - have experience with teaching and research in one of the following areas: document design, applied conversation analysis, media and computer communication - are able to develop courses and teaching formats that give shape to the profile of the CIW programme - are professionally involved and engaged, documented by publications and other research activities - have an excellent command of Dutch and English, or are prepared to learn Dutch within reasonable time

The University of Groningen offers: A salary dependent on qualifications and work experience with a minimum of 3195 Euros per month (salary scale 11) till a maximum of 4970 Euros per month (salary scale 12) for a full-time position. Two full-time appointments will be for a period of two years. One full-time appointment will be for a period of two years, with the prospect of appointment for an indefinite period (tenure track), based on an appraisal in the second year.